Egg-carrier.



F. KRONENBERGER.

EGG CARRIER. APPLICATION FILED AUG-9,1913.

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EGG-CARRIER.

i Application filed August 9,

To all whom may concern: A i I Be it knownthatI, FERDINAND KRONEN BERGER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hastings, county of Oswego, and- State of New York,.have invented a' certain new and useful Eg Carrier, of which the following is a speci cation.

This invention is an article carrier, the same being for the shipment .of eggs, fruit, vegetables and other objects without breakage or injury.

The object in view is the. production of" a simple contrivance which will hold-the ob-, jects so securely in position that-they will not be broken or injured by the shock or jar to which they are exposed during shipment, particularly by rough handling.

The carrier is a substitute for the ordinary cell case, and a number of said carriers are adapted to be stacked or piled with the articles within an ordinary packing- I case; but by reason of the safety and-se- 'curity accorded .to the articles, the carrier] or carriers are useful in small cartons or packages for the shipment'by parcel post of perishable objects'from the producer to the consumer, l

The carrier of the present invention em-, bodies a member provided with rows -of pockets and having crossing stays integral with said member, said stays constituting in effect a cell case with the article receiving pockets produced in a sheet integral with the stays.

It is preferred to roduce the article carrier from a sheet of paper, or other material. suitable. for the. purpose, and tothis end the paper is slotted and creased at cer-' tain lines and is slitted at portions intermediate the slotted and creased parts thereof, as a result of which the sheet'is adapted to be folded in two directions along the creased portions so as to produce stays which cross or intersect each other and are integral with the sheet. The slitted'parts of the sheet are adapted, whenthe' carrleris in use, to be deflected by articles so as to form pocketsto receive such articles, and the carriers and objects are confined under pressure so that the articles will be held securely and yieldably to the end that no movement or displacement of such articles can take place. When my carriers are used in an ordinary packing case, they are assembled in pairs,

Specification of Ibetters Patent.

Patented-Dec. as, was. 1913. Serial No. 783,864.

with separators between adj acent pairs, the

. two carriers of each pair reversed with respect to each other so as to-bring the slitted parts -1n' facing relation and the pockets formed by said shtted parts into register,

whereby the two carriers forming each pair will operate to confine the rows of ob ects firmly in. position. It is not desired, however, .to restrict the invention to a carrier composed of sheets of paper slitted and creased as described, for the reason that sa d carrier may be composed of molded or pressed pulp characterized by the employment of a sheet with integral pockets and by the use of crossing stays which are integral with the sheet in the intervals between the pockets thereof. In the drawings, Fi

' duced: Fig. 5;i,s a vertical section showing the manner ofdeflectingthe yieldable fingers in the carrier of F1gsp3 and 4.

The carrien-s'hown in Figs. 1 and '2 of the A drawings embodies a member A provided with pockets B and intersecting stays C, D.

re 1 is a vertical section througha paclnng case illustrating The pockets are arranged in rows, each pocket being provided with a series of slits b radiating from a common center and extending nearlyto the rim of the pocket, said slits forming yieldable members adapted to be-deflected by the pressure of the article contained within the pocket. The stays C,

D are integral with the member A, said stays C extending transversely of the member, whereas. stays D extend longitudinally of the' member. The stays G D cross or intersect each other and they are positioned in the intervals between the pockets of the rows, whereby the stays operateto reinforce the member A so as to: preclude bending or deflection thereof under the pressure of the articles packed within the case. In Figs. 1 and 2 each carrier A is composed of a single piece of material, said, carrier being molded or pressed from pulp or other suitable fibrous material. The slits b in the pockets may be omitted, but it is preferred to provide the carrier; a second carrier A is then intro-- slits in the bottom of each produce the yieldable members.

The carriers A are employed-in pairs, one carrier being inverted with respect to the other carrier, and the two carriers of each pair being assembled in facing relation so that the pockets will register. Thus, in Fig. 1 a'carrier A is placed upon the bottom 6. of a packing case E; a row of objects, such as eggs, are then placed in the pockets of the 7 the third carrier, a, fourth carrier A, occumcarriers, separators, and the layers of eggs until the.

pying an inverted position with respect to the third carrier, is now introduced into thecase so as to receivethe objects, and thereafter a second separating layer F is deposited upon the fourth carrier. These operations are repeated by introducing the packing case E is substantially filled, the objects being h'eld or confined between two carriers composing a pair, and

said objects being retained in the pockets of the adjacent carriers. During the operation of packing the case pressure is applied to the carriers so as to forcethe objects into that the pockets will oppose each other and the pockets of said carriers under suflicient pressure to bend or deflect the yieldable fingers formed by the slitted pockets, and thus the objects are securely retained under pressure in the pockets of the carriers so that the objects cannot work loose and come into contact with eachfother. The objects packed between and within the carriers are so securely "retained that they cannot become broken or injured during transportation. The articles can be easily and quickly packed in the case by placing them in the pockets, and as the pockets are provided with yieldable members it is evident that articles of dlfl'erent sizes can be packed and securely held without breaking or injuring them.

A preferred form of construction is illustrated in Figs. 3, 4 and 5 of the drawings,

'wherein the egg carrier is produced from .a

blank of'paper or other fibrous material suitable for the purpose, the blank being shown more particularly in Fig. 4:. The blank Gis cut or slotted, as at 9, thus leaving solid portions 71.. In these solid por-.

tions are slits h, the slits of each group radiating from a common center and producing yieldable members which are adapted to be deflected so as to result in a pocket H,

shown in Figs. 3 and 5. The portions 2' between the slitted portions 71. are scored or pocket in order to creased at j the scoring in running atv right angles to the scoring The blank is cut, slitted and scored in suitable dies at one or more 0perations,and the flat blanks G thus produced are adapted to be stacked or piled in one direction with respect to the carrier;

thereafter the blank is folded in another direction and along the score lines is, thus producing other stays K which intersect with the stays J for the reason that the .stays K run at right angles to the stays J. The operation of "folding the blank in two directions so as to result in the stays J K brings the slitted portions h closer together, as shown in Fig. 3, and as a result of this manipulation of the blank G, shown in Fig. 4:,

there is produced a carrier of the form I shown in Fig.- 3, wherein the slitted pockets H in the sheet or member are integral with stays J K which extend crosswise of the carrier and intersect with each other, sub-' stantially as shown in Figs. 3'and 5. After anumber of the carriers have been folded, they are assembled in a packing case in the manner. shown in F ig. 1, that is to say, two carriers 'are employed in connection with each layer of articles, the carriers constituting each pair being reversed in position so register with each other, whereby the objects will be deposited in the pockets of the bottom member and 'be received inthe pockets of the top member. The two carriers of the pair having been properly assembled hers, which pressure deflects the yieldable fingers formed by the slitted portions b so that the articles will be held securely. by the 4 yieldable fingers of the opposing members composing the pair of carriers. I Having thus fully described the invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent is 1. An article carrier embodying a plurality of cotiperating members assembled for fixedly retaining in position the artlcles to be packed, each member comprising a sheet or web provided with pressure-transmitting stays, said stays being integral with the sheet or web and extending in crossing relation to each other, and said stays bounding definite areas of the sheet or web, which definite areas of the sheet or web are slitted intermediate the stays andsaid slitted portions producing tongues which are positioned for frictional contact with articles placed between the members and operating to retain said articles under pressure.

2. An article carrier of the class described.

' embodying a sheet or web provided with integral pressuretransmitting' stays, said stays extending from 'one'surface of the sheet or web and certain of said staysextending at a right angle to the remaining stays so as as to be deflected from the plane of the sheet or web.

3. An article carrier of the class described embodying a sheet or web provided with rows of slitted portions, and pressure-transmitting stays integral with said sheet or web and extending from one surface thereof, said stays being joined to the sheet or web in the intervals between the slitted portions' thereof.

4. An article carrier embodying a plurality of members assembled for-fixedly retaining in position the articles to be packed,

" each member comprising a sheet or web provided with two rows of integral stays extending in one direction from a surface of said sheet, the stays of one row being at right angles to the stays of the other row and bounding definite areas of the sheet so as to produce a series of cells, said sheet or web being slitted in the spaces bounded by the stays, and producing resilient tongues positioned .for frictional contact with the articles adapted to be held between the first named members, said definite areas of the sheet bounded by the stays being character.- ized by a certain stiffness or rigidity as comparedwith the yieldable tongues so that I. the margins of the web at the slitted portionsthereof operate to apply pressure upon the articles the resistance of which deflects said tonguesfrom the plane of the sheet or web.

5, Anarticle carrier of the class described comprising a slotted blank of sheet material, said sheet material being cut or slitted to produce yieldable members and said blank being foldable in two directions on lines intermediate said slitted portions, said folded portions of the sheet material producing pressure-transmitting stays integral with the sheet and bounding the spaces formed with the slitted portions of said sheet.

6. A blank for a one-piece article carrier- 7. A blank for a one-piece article carrier of the class described comprising a sheet of I material slotted and slitted at intervals and provided intermediate the slitted portions with score lines extending in two directions, said blank being foldable on the score lines to produce two series of pressure-transmitting stays integral with the sheet in the intervals between the slitted portions thereof.

8. An article carrier comprising a sheet or web provided with integral stayswhich are positioned in crossing relation and extend in one direction from a surface of the sheet, said sheet being provided in each space bounded by the stays with groups of slits which produce yieldable tongues adapted for frictional contact with the articles whereby said articles are held under pressure by said tongues and by contact therewith of the slitted marginal portions of the sheet.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence 

